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A bullying headmistress spent ten minutes calmly finishing her lunch while a pupil lay in agony crying for help with a broken leg, a tribunal heard.

Rowena Brace ignored pupils’ pleas for help and finished her sandwiches before phoning the child’s father instead of calling an ambulance.

Mrs Brace’s staff were often reduced to tears as they worked in the ‘climate of fear’ she created, it was claimed.

Reprimanded: Rowena Brace and husband Cliff outside the hearing yesterday
Rowena Brace with her husband Cliff, seen today outside the disciplinary hearing in Birmingham Brace has denied four counts of misconduct

Hope Brook Church of England Primary school: Brace lost her job here in 2007

Hope Brook Church of England Primary school in Longhope, Gloucestershire

Earlier, Miss Hollis said the intimidation began during the first staff meeting after Hope Brook Primary and Hopes Hill Community Primary schools merged in 2001 and Mrs Brace was installed as head. ‘Mrs Brace dismissed anything else anyone had done in the past and told us all that it was going to be done her way in the future,’ said Miss Hollis.

One of the teachers became so disillusioned with the new head she resigned later that day